As I write this, the most pleasing sound is washing over me—gentle waves ebbing and flowing onto the shore. Sadly, I’m not actually on some magnificent tropical beach. Instead, the sounds of the sea are being generated by my Mac.
Yet, more than just being pleasing to the ear, this sound, and others the Mac can generate, have helped boost my focus in recent months when I’m under deadline and trying to get work done. The feature is called “Background Sounds.” Here are some of the benefits I’ve gotten from it and how you can use it, too.
I know some writers who need absolute silence when they are working. I’ve never been one of those people. I work best when there is low-level noise from something else in the space around me—the rustling of tree branches outside a window or the indistinct murmur of other people in a cafe.
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